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Posts tagged with 'Denmark' and 'USA' at MetaFilter.Sat, 08 Nov 2014 16:16:15 -0800Sat, 08 Nov 2014 16:16:15 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60“If there’s no god, why should I believe in him?”http://www.metafilter.com/144325/If%2Dtheres%2Dno%2Dgod%2Dwhy%2Dshould%2DI%2Dbelieve%2Din%2Dhim
The Norden is a Finnish TV series, taking Americans and introducing them to their profession within the Nordic countries. First, James Conway, retired Superintendent of Attica Correctional Facility in New York, visits four Nordic prisons and facilities. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g56susrNQY">An excerpt</a>, and the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfEsz812Q1I">full episode with English subtitles</a>. The series is produced by the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle.
In the next episode, pastor Marty McLain from Georgia visits the Nordic countries and asks people if they believe in God. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuDqEGlKOus">Excerpt</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.144325Sat, 08 Nov 2014 16:16:15 -0800WordshoreSAMMY: "That's democracy?"http://www.metafilter.com/42029/SAMMY%2DThats%2Ddemocracy
<a href="http://blogs.indiewire.com/cannes/archives/003865.html">"I am an American, so that is why I make films about America.</a> America is sitting on our world, I am making films that have to do with America (because) 60% of my life is America. So I am in fact an American, but I can't go there to vote, I can't change anything. We are a nation under influence and under a very bad influence… because Mr. Bush is an asshole and doing very idiotic things."</br>
<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/31940">Lars Von Trier</a> <a href="http://www.festival-cannes.fr/films/fiche_film.php?langue=6002&partie=video&id_film=4271486&cmedia=6462">introduces</a> <a href="http://www.screendaily.com/story.asp?storyid=22146&r=true">his new film</a> at the <a href="http://www.festival-cannes.fr/films/fiche_film.php?langue=6002&id_film=4271486">Cannes Film Festival</a>: <a href="http://www.indiewire.com/onthescene/onthescene_050516cann.html">&#0171;Manderlay&#0187;</a> picks up where &#0171;<a href="http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/18/features-bernhard.php">Dogville</a>&#0187; left off, with the character originated by Nicole Kidman -- now played by Bryce Dallas Howard -- <a href="http://www3.cjad.com/content/cp_article.asp?id=/global_feeds/CanadianPress/EntertainmentNews/e051617A.htm">stumbling</a> onto <a href="http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1034603&tw=wn_wire_story">a plantation that time forgot, where slavery</a> still operates in the 1930s. <a href="http://a69.g.akamai.net/7/69/7515/v1/img5.allocine.fr/img_cis/images/festivaldecannes/img/photo/010166.pdf">The film</a> <small>(5 MB .pdf file, official pressbook)</small> ends, as Dogville did, with David Bowie’s Young Americans played over a photomontage of images that range from a Ku Klux Klan meeting to the Rodney King beating, George Bush at prayer and Martin Luther King at his final rest, American soldiers in Vietnam and the Gulf, the Twin Towers. More inside. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.42029Mon, 16 May 2005 10:30:53 -0800matteoThe Grace Of Wrathhttp://www.metafilter.com/31940/The%2DGrace%2DOf%2DWrath
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/movies/21SCOT.html?pagewanted=all&amp;position=">"The people of Dogville are proud, hypocritical and never more dangerous than when they are convinced of the righteousness of their actions" (NYT link)</a> "<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/critics/cinema/?040329crci_cinema">The movie is, of course, an attack on America</a>—its innocence, its conformity, its savagery—though von Trier is interested not in the life of this country (he’s never been here) but in the ways he can exploit European disdain for it." (The New Yorker). <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001885/">Lars Von Trier's </a>new movie, <a href="http://www.tvropa.com/Dogville/">Dogville</a>, is under attack from critics who consider it anti-American. Von Trier, of course, has never been to the US but<a href="http://u.presstelegram.com/Stories/0,1413,218~24207~2031176,00.html"> he counters that he knows more about U.S. culture through modern media than, say, the makers of "Casablanca' knew about Morocco. </a>Kafka<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805210644/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/"> hadn't been to Amerika either</a>.
Should non US-ian artists leave America alone if they've never been there? Von Trier says that <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/175283p-152632c.html">"in my own country, I'm considered anti-Danish</a> - again, that's more about politics than issues of nationality."
<em> <small> (more inside)<small></small></small></em></small></small> tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.31940Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:40:35 -0800matteoGreat Danes...http://www.metafilter.com/25397/Great%2DDanes
<a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/news/2003/04/26/us_denmark_ap/">Yippie.</a> Denmark beats US in world cup hockey. We have not participated in the world cup since a 0-47 loss to Canada in 1949. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.25397Sun, 27 Apr 2003 04:50:32 -0800EirixonThe U.S. Should buy Greenlandhttp://www.metafilter.com/7780/The%2DUS%2DShould%2Dbuy%2DGreenland
<a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20010516/564195.html">The U.S. Should buy Greenland</a> I often wonder why politicians and bureaucrats don't act on the ideas of columnists. Maybe because it would be, in the words of Sir Humphrey Appleby, "<a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20001201/20001201_hot7.htm">courageous</a>" of them to do so. tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.7780Thu, 17 May 2001 22:49:33 -0800youthbc1